Flow at 9.28 Years
#201
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
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#202
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Joined APC: Feb 2019
Posts: 92
Agreed. The aviation industry troll of the year award goes to TheKooj! Congratulations lol.
#203
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Joined APC: Apr 2020
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I’ve spent a little time thinking about this flow going away in bankruptcy stuff, and I just don’t know why it would. Getting rid of flow doesn’t provide any cost savings. If it’s gone, then AAG only helps the Spirits and Frontiers as all their WO regional pilots have a mass exodus. I’m pretty sure everyone at a WO walks that stay or spirit tightrope as some point. Or if not one of those carriers then just the highest paying regional. The WOs basically don’t need a recruiting department because of it. And my understanding is that the training over at AA is mostly seamless for the flows, while street hires and military tend to be the ones needing extra, so the training dept tends to like it. (Not that a flow is a better pilot, just the FOM and procedures and familiarity etc)
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
#204
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I’ve spent a little time thinking about this flow going away in bankruptcy stuff, and I just don’t know why it would. Getting rid of flow doesn’t provide any cost savings. If it’s gone, then AAG only helps the Spirits and Frontiers as all their WO regional pilots have a mass exodus. I’m pretty sure everyone at a WO walks that stay or spirit tightrope as some point. Or if not one of those carriers then just the highest paying regional. The WOs basically don’t need a recruiting department because of it. And my understanding is that the training over at AA is mostly seamless for the flows, while street hires and military tend to be the ones needing extra, so the training dept tends to like it. (Not that a flow is a better pilot, just the FOM and procedures and familiarity etc)
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
You are correct, however it has huge negotiating power, at least it did.
#205
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Joined APC: Nov 2016
Posts: 2,466
I’ve spent a little time thinking about this flow going away in bankruptcy stuff, and I just don’t know why it would. Getting rid of flow doesn’t provide any cost savings. If it’s gone, then AAG only helps the Spirits and Frontiers as all their WO regional pilots have a mass exodus. I’m pretty sure everyone at a WO walks that stay or spirit tightrope as some point. Or if not one of those carriers then just the highest paying regional. The WOs basically don’t need a recruiting department because of it. And my understanding is that the training over at AA is mostly seamless for the flows, while street hires and military tend to be the ones needing extra, so the training dept tends to like it. (Not that a flow is a better pilot, just the FOM and procedures and familiarity etc)
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
#206
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Joined APC: Apr 2020
Posts: 264
I will never understand why people bash other pilots for wanting to go to a regional for a flow. Some want very good QOL, some want a shiny new jet, some want the best pay rates, and some want career progression. Too say “hOw iS tHaT fLoW” is quite foolish.
#209
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Joined APC: Feb 2020
Posts: 498
If you had the stats to get on at NK you should have gone, stayed a year or two and then gone to AA. Although, all that was pre COVID so it doesn’t really matter at this point. I’m happy at NK and even if I get furloughed, at least my name is on the list.
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